LETTER: Obama and Carter

Published: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 04:59 PM.

To compare President Obama’s performance in office to Jimmy Carter’s is pathetic and shallow. Let’s just look at things as they are.
What if all of the things we were warned about Obama were (and remain) true? Isn’t Russia’s President Putin simply exercising leadership in his part of the world because he knows in his heart that Obama in his heart is indeed nothing more than a “community organizer” from Chicago?
I mean, wasn’t that the qualification always barked at us by supporters when we questioned Obama’s fitness to represent our country on the world stage? That, and that we were racists for even demanding to know his qualifications?
I’m imagining the day the CIA came to Obama to warn him Russian troops were massing on the Ukrainian boarder. With a wave of his hand and a shake of his head: “Right. That’s so 20th century, that’ll never happen. Call me on the golf course if something real happens. Gotta run.”
In his recent book, “Duty,” Bob Gates recounts how completely disinterested Obama seemed in what Obama referred to as “the right war” (compared to Bush’s “wrong war”). He also described how Obama seemed interested only in getting out by employing a strategy that minimized casualties, never seeking victory.
I guess in a year or two we’ll see how Obama reacts when the Taliban surges back to power in Afghanistan and al-Qaida is resurrected: “Right. That’s so last decade. Call me on the golf course if something real happens.”

— WILLIAM J. ROBERTS
Fort Walton Beach

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To compare President Obama’s performance in office to Jimmy Carter’s is pathetic and shallow. Let’s just look at things as they are.
What if all of the things we were warned about Obama were (and remain) true? Isn’t Russia’s President Putin simply exercising leadership in his part of the world because he knows in his heart that Obama in his heart is indeed nothing more than a “community organizer” from Chicago?
I mean, wasn’t that the qualification always barked at us by supporters when we questioned Obama’s fitness to represent our country on the world stage? That, and that we were racists for even demanding to know his qualifications?
I’m imagining the day the CIA came to Obama to warn him Russian troops were massing on the Ukrainian boarder. With a wave of his hand and a shake of his head: “Right. That’s so 20th century, that’ll never happen. Call me on the golf course if something real happens. Gotta run.”
In his recent book, “Duty,” Bob Gates recounts how completely disinterested Obama seemed in what Obama referred to as “the right war” (compared to Bush’s “wrong war”). He also described how Obama seemed interested only in getting out by employing a strategy that minimized casualties, never seeking victory.
I guess in a year or two we’ll see how Obama reacts when the Taliban surges back to power in Afghanistan and al-Qaida is resurrected: “Right. That’s so last decade. Call me on the golf course if something real happens.”